Veneer-slicing machine.



No. 65!,287. Patented June 5, I900.

W. H. WILLIAMS. I VENEER SLIGING MACHINE.

(Application filed Feb. 10, 1900.)

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VENEER SLIDING MACHINE.

(Application filed Feb. 10, 1900.)

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No. 65|,287. Patented June 5, I900. W. H. WILLIAMS. VENEER, SLICING MACHINE.

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ATENT IVILLIAM H. WILLIAMS, OF NEW YORK, Y.

VENEERrSLl ClNG MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent, No. 651,287, dated June 5, 1900.

Application filed Ie'bru arylO, 1900. Serial No. 4,792. (N0 odel- To all/ /1/0777, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. WILLIAMS,

a citizen of the United States, residing at New specification and claims, and illustrated in the annexed drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a face elevation of a veneerslicing machine. Fig. 2 shows parts in a different position than in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an Fig. 4 shows a driv- Fig. 5 is a plan view of set- Fig. 6 isalongitudinal sectional Fig. 7 is a transverse view of ing mechanism. ting-screws. view of shoes. Fig. 6.

The stay-log Ct is reciprocated to carry the log to or past the cutter or blade I) to slice off a layer or veneer and then return to again start drawing the log over or past the knife. The stay-log moves in its support or along guides or ways 0 and connects by links d with arms or cranks e on shafts f. The shafts f have arms g, connected by links 71,, so that the parts at move in unison with one another. The shafts f (or one of them) are oscillated or rocked by suitable means, as a crank and link 6*, connected to an arm 6 or g. As this feature is known no detail description thereof is required.

The knife I) is mounted on holder 71., carried by bed 2', resting on plate 70, which can be leveled or adjusted up or down by screws m and rests on shoes (or rather supplemental shoes) n, carried by lower or main shoes 0. Each of shoes 0 is engaged by a screw or threaded rod p, Fig. 5, and these rods connect by miter-gears with a shaft q, extended across the machine and having a settingwheel r. By turning Wheel 1" and shaft q one way or another the screws 19, which are threaded right and left hand, respectively,

'cause the shoes 0, with knife-holder and knife Z) to be set toward or from sta -lo a as required.

The supplemental shoes n, Figs. 6 and 7, are mounted to slide on ways or tracks on shoes 0, and these supplemental shoes can be set or moved on the main shoes by screws 8, Fig. 5, which are also threaded right and left hand, respectively, and are connected to one another by miter-gears and shaft 1.

One of the screws or rods 8 is extended, as seen at s, Fig. 5, and has a feather connection with a pinion or gear 2, which can rotate but not move laterally. This pin-ion 2 is engaged by segmental gear 3, Figs. 1 and 3, on lever 4, fulcrumed at 5. A swivel 6 has its gudgeons supported in lever 4., and through this swivel passes a sliding rod 7, pivoted or connected to one of the arms g. The slide 7 has collars or nuts 8, Figs. 1 and 2,"which can be set suitably apart, so that'such collars will only strike or move lever 4 as the slide 7 arrives near the end of its respective strokes o'r oscillations. The slide coming near the end of its stroke in one direction, a collar 8 will strike and move lever 4, with screws 3, so as to move shoes 11., with knife Z), away from stay-log a sufficiently for the knife to be out of contact with or'out of the path of the log. The latter can now make its return stroke without touching the knife.

As the stay-log arrives at its upper or starting point the other collar 8 strikes or shifts lever 4t sufficiently to cause a slight rotation of gear 1, with-screws .9, whereby shoes 9?. are

.moved toward the stay-log sufficiently to bring knife I) into the path of the log. As the latter now makes its down or cutting stroke the log is drawn over the knife-edge, so that slicing is effected.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A reciprocating stay-log, and its support, combined with a cutter or knife, two sets of shoes for supporting the knife, and screw mechanism connected With the two sets of shoes for setting and feeding the same, so as to cause the knife to recede forpermitting the log on its return to escape contact with the knife and then causing the knife to move to 'cuttin g position,substantially as described. 2. A stay=-log, and its support, combined with a cutter or knife, main and supplemental as described.

3. A stay-log, and its support, combined with a cutter or knife, main and supplemental shoes for supporting the knife, and screw mechanism for connecting and operating the shoes, and screws for ad j ustably connecting the main and supplemental shoes substantially as described.

6. A stay-log and its support, combined with a cutter or knife, a set of shoes for support ing the knife, another set of shoes on which the first-named shoes are adj ustably mounted two sets of oppositely-located screws for setting and feeding the said shoes, and crossshafts and miter-gears for connecting said screws, substantially as described.

7 A stay-log and its support, combined with a knife or cutter, main and supplemental shoes for supporting the knife, oppositelylocated screws 5 s for the supplemental shoes,

the cross-shaft 1 connected with said screws bymiter-gears, a gear or pinion 2 0n oneof said screws, a segmental gear 3 and an arm 4 for actuating said pinion, feed-screws p for the main shoes, and a shaft q geared with and connecting said feed-screws, substantially as described.

8. A stay-log and its support, and a mechanism, substantially as described, for actuating the said log, combined with a shaft having a pinion 2 actuated by said mechanism, main andsupplemental shoes, setting-screws engaged with said supplemental shoes, one of said screws being feathered in said pinion, feed-screws engaged with the main shoes, a shaft geared with and connecting said feed- :screws, and a cutter or knife supported upon the supplemental shoes, substantially as described.

9. A stay-log and its support and an arm for oscillating the stay-log, combined with a segmental gear and a pinion rocked by said arm, a screw .9 feathered in the pinion, a shoe moved back and forth by the screw, and a knife carried by the shoe substantially as described.

10. A knife-sugporting shoe and a screw and pinion for said shoe combined with a geararm for the pinion, a swivel or sleeve 6 trunnioned in the gear-arm, a slide-rod 7 having stops orcollars 8 t'o-engage the swivel, a staylog, and an actuator for the stay-log and sliderod substantially as described.

11. A stay-logand its support and arms for actuating the stay-log, combined with a sliderod actuated by one of the arms, a segmental gear having an arm in which the slide-rod moves andwhich is actuated by the slide'rod', a pinion. actuated by the segmental gear, a

- screw actuated by the pinion, a shoeengaged by the screw and aknife carried" by the shoe substantially asdescribed.

12.. A stay-log and actuating-arms for the stay-log, combined with rock-shafts for the witnesses.

WILLIAM H. WILLIAMS. Witnesses:

W.'O. HAUFF, E. F. KASTENHUBER. 

